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Originally posted by I saw that!I never got into turning, but from a layman's point of view that's beautiful.Lee -
Never tried turning but that looks really nice! I have no idea how one does the "glue up???" to accomplish that .... ???
It's beyond my ken for sure!"Like an old desperado, I paint the town beige ..." REK
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That's pretty cool. Reminds me of some kind of 70's era clothing designs which now that I re-read it seems like an oxymoron.
Does the yellow dot have to be in the middle? IMO, that's the only thing I'd take out.
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Yes that is where the blank is mounted on the latheCork,
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Wow!
Just. Wow!
That is beautiful!
And that glue-up must have been some work of design and art! And Persistence, I guess?
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Beautiful! Great choice in contrasting woods and great spacing/design. It sure draws eye contact. Eye Candy!
My guess for woods:
Walnut, padauk, maple, holly or aspen for the very white, Osage Orange/bodoc for yellow.
My guess for the white included aspen because I am not sure if your have holly in AK. Maybe you do. I am suspect of my answer for the yellow, again because of its availability in AK.
How far off am I?Last edited by leehljp; 03-01-2015, 06:46 PM.Hank Lee
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The bowl makes it look like another color, but it must be the shadows and the position of the wood reflecting? the color. I made a hutch in which the vertical wood and the horizontal pieces look totally different colors/shades, although they are from the same wood. But it is the direction of the grains against the light that makes it appear that way.
Your bowl does look like there is a difference in the light wood - a contrast as much as holly and maple - to my eyes.Hank Lee
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The bowl makes it look like another color, but it must be the shadows and the position of the wood reflecting? the color. I made a hutch in which the vertical wood and the horizontal pieces look totally different colors/shades, although they are from the same wood. But it is the direction of the grains against the light that makes it appear that way.
Your bowl does look like there is a difference in the light wood - a contrast as much as holly and maple - to my eyes.
The idea of turning the wood 90% gives me both closed and open grain which gives the white wood different colors without changing the darker colors. You have a very good eye on that! Most people wouldn't have caught that, but that was in my plan. You are right about it being the same piece of maple. Just the difference between open and closed grain. Not the camera angle, it really is different colors. Pretty amazing how the color changes huh.
Thanks for your observation. I hope I explained it correctly. It is really fun to see how open and closed grain will react!Cork,
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Cork, very nice. I've yet to turn a bowl, but started turning about 5 years ago. Started on pens, then branched out to wine stoppers, pizza cutters, peppermills, tool handles -- basically I'm hooked on spindles. And I tend to do a lot of segmented spindles, just to play with colors and patterns.
My goal is to do some bowls this year. I jsut bought my first bowl gouge. (Unhandled of course, I had to do my own tool handle!)LeeComment
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